Is set to hit Floridas Gulf Coast late Wednesday Night tampa, potentially in the bullseye in the Citys Mayor is not mincing words. She is warning people who dont evacuate, quote you are going to die it appears some are taking her very seriously with those foreboding words, hitting the roads and streaming out of the area before it gets too late. The storm described as extremely dangerous with sustained winds of 100 and 65 miles per hour. Milton, now the strongest storm to occur anywhere on the planet. This year. I want to bring in Cnn Meteorologist Chad myers. Chad, weve heard the strong words in the tampa mayor. What is this new advisory show . It shows that we lost a little bit of pressure. The pressure went up. Thats good news. Weve lost a little bit of Wind Speed from one at 165. Thats still category five okay. Were not were not bringing this down. Do cat two or one or tropical storm a very dangerous storm, but hurricane hunters, both noah and also Air Force have flown in the ai ove
We start this hour with some breaking news. The death toll from hurricane helene has now risen to 89. 30 of those deaths were in north carolina which has seen a record 30inches of rainfall. Nearly 2 million people are without power. And joining general honore. Good to have you on the show. Let me get your assessment from someone like you who knows the damage you re seeing right now. What do you make of the damage we re seeing across the south. Well i think you clarified the point. This was amongst the storm that attacked florida. Made its way through georgia and into north carolina and tennessee. And even parts of virginia. It s a massive storm. I dropped enormous amount of water. Not measured in inches but by a foot in some places 2foot of water dropped. It overdropped the terrain. And when you do that it s going go into the valleys. A lot of commune tips had not experienced that. And what we have seen, with condolences to everyone who lost their lives the impact of the flash flooding
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Absolutely. No question about it and important for parents to watch for sure. And i know you have little ones and you just wanna do everything you can to protect those little ones as much as possible. You absolutely do for sure. I have to i dont think im going to be letting them play football but that at least high school, i dont know either you know, well see what happens. All right. Jim acosta. Thanks so much. Ill take it from here. Good morning, everyone. You are live in the Cnn Newsroom. Im Pamela Brown and New York and we have a new news this morning. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivering an impassioned plea at the United Nations General Assembly just moments ago here On Cnn, we heard him rally global support for ukraine more than twoandahalf years after russia invaded his country and launched a War Zelenskyy brought the chilling warning that russia is Planning Attacks on nuclear Power Plants in ukraine. Heres a bit of his message to World Leaders recently i received
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